Normal values of sudomotor function assessed by electrochemical skin conductance in African population.

Background: Dysfunction of small nerve fibers remains a major public health concern. Subjects suspected of having small nerve fiber damage need to undergo reliable tests to confirm the diagnosis. Sudomotor function test is a reliable noninvasive exploration for detecting peripheral neuropathies.

Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders in Black African: Experience of Togo (2015-2020).

 Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) would disproportionately affect blacks within mixed populations. However, they are rarely reported in black African. The objective of this work was to report the experience of Togo, a West African country in terms of NMOSD.

[Guillain-Barré syndrome in hospitals in Togo].

Introduction: In sub-Saharan Africa characterized by limited resources especially in health facilities and a relatively higher frequency of infectious diseases, studies on Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are rare.

Objectives: The objectives of this work are to describe the characteristics of GBS in Togo through a cohort of patients followed in the neurology unit of the Campus University Hospital of Lomé.

Methodology: The study took place from May 2015 to July 2019.

Clinical management and disease-modifying treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in African hospital centers: the TROPALS study.

To assess the availability of health workers and medications for clinical management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in African hospital centers. Availability and affordability analyses of disease-modifying treatments were performed. : A multicenter observational study involving African hospitals was conducted.

[Brown Sequard syndrome revealing a cervical pott's disease associated with a retropharyngeal abscess].

A 37-year-old patient was admitted for a left progressive left-hand hemiparesis associated with left C4-C5 neuralgia preceded by inflammatory neck pain for 04 months and dysphagia for 02 weeks. Magnetic resonance imaging showed C3-C5 spondylodiscitis lesions with epidural abscess and predominantly left lateralized compression of the spinal cord and retropharyngeal abscess. The patient was operated for incision and drainage of the retropharyngeal abscess through the oral cavity and Koch bacillus was demonstrated from the aspirate by molecular technique GeneXpert.

Case report: an area postrema syndrome revealing a neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder associated with central nervous system tuberculosis in a young Togolese (black African) woman.

Background: Area postrema syndrome (APS) is considered to be one of the most specific clinical presentations of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs). In sub-Saharan Africa, NMOSDs and even more so those revealed by an APS, are rarely reported. However, studies among mixed populations have shown that NMOSDs disproportionately affect black people with relatively more frequent encephalic involvement.

[Disseminated cysticercosis: report of three cases in Togo].

We report 3 cases of disseminated cysticercosis (DC) in adult male subjects in Togo. All had consulted in dermatology for asymptomatic subcutaneous nodules. The diagnosis was confirmed by histology of a resected nodule.

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in an urban area of Togo: a WHO STEPS-wise approach in Lome, Togo.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in the general adult population of Lome.

Methods: A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Lome from October 2009 to January 2010, which focused on hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in 2 000 subjects 18 years and older. The World Health Organisation's STEPS-wise approach on non-communicable diseases was used.

Causes of mortality associated with HIV/AIDS in health-care facilities in Togo: a six-month prospective study.

In order to determine the rate and the different causes of mortality associated with HIV/AIDS in health-care facilities we conducted a prospective study between 1 April and 30 September 2010 in the six health regions of Togo. We rationalized the choice of the healthcare facilities in order to cover the entire national territory. During the study period, 24,054 patients were hospitalized.

[Opportunistic infections of the HIV/AIDS in adults in hospital settings in Togo].

The objective of this study is to determine the main opportunistic infections (OI) and those strongly linked to high death rate in hospital settings in Togo. It is a descriptive study conducted from June to November 2008 in 22 public and private settings of all medical specialties throughout the entire Togolese territory. Hospitalized patients with OI and HIV positive data were collected.

Knowledge and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among adult people living with HIV/AIDS treated in the health care centers of the association "Espoir Vie Togo" in Togo, West Africa.

Background: The efficiency of antiretroviral therapy (ART) depends on a near perfect level of patients' adherence. The level of adherence of adults HIV-infected patients treated in the HIV/AIDS health care centres of the association "Espoir Vie Togo" in Togo, West Africa is not properly documented. The aim of the present study was to examine by means of self-reports the knowledge, the adherence level and associated factors to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among these patients.

[Cost of stroke in Lomé (Togo).].

The financial crisis that affected the healthcare systems of most developing countries in the 1980s, the ensuing need to control hospital costs, the partial disengagement of States, and the resort to policies based on cost recovery -- all these led to the restructuring of hospital systems in Africa, in accordance with the Bamako initiative, adopted by the WHO regional committee in September 1987. This restructuring required populations to pay much of the cost of their health care. In practice, however, the major obstacle to this policy of cost recovery remains poverty.

[The epilepsy treatment gap in six primary care centres in Togo (2007-2009)].

Epilepsy, the most common serious neurological condition, is one of the most widespread non-transmissible diseases in the world. In developing countries, about 90% of those with epilepsy do not receive appropriate treatment; this treatment gap, very high compared with other chronic diseases, helps to explain the marginalisation and poor living conditions of these people. Reducing this treatment gap and the burden that epilepsy represents is a difficult task and the obstacles are numerous.

[Cerebral vascular accidents and embolic cardiovascular diseases].

The cardiopathies occupy a place of choice in CVA (cerebro vascular accident) but in Togo no work have been done in this sector to realize it. Our work had for an objective to determine the prevalence of the association of cardiopathy and CVA (cerebro vascular accident). To determine the prevalence of embologenic cardiopathies.

Management of epilepsy patients in Batamariba district, Togo.

Objective: To describe the feasibility of managing epilepsy in a rural setting in a developing country.

Methods: The project comprised four phases. After a study of the perception of epilepsy, we conducted a sensitization campaign in November 2001.

[Hospitalization charges for patients in the Neurology Department of Lomé Teaching Hospital].

For many years the cost of health care in sub-Saharan Africa was largely covered by the State. But in September 1987, in view of the economical problems those countries had to face, the WHO regional committee adopted the "Bainako's Initiative" resolution. This meant that from then on everybody was to pay for their health expenses.

[Non-traumatic paraplegia at the campus teaching hospital of Lome. Report of 243 cases].

To ascertain the aetiology, of non traumatic paraplegia retrospective survey, concerning 2396 patients hospitalised from January 1st 1995 to December 31st 1999, was done. Two hundred forty three cases were founded after investigation. The frequency of non traumatic paraplegia was 10.

[Neurological disorders and endemic goiter: comparative analysis of 2 provinces in Togo].

Neurological diseases are one of the main causes of high mortality and morbidity in developing countries. The prevention of these diseases is possible if they are well known. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and the distribution of the main neurological affections in two rural districts.

[Traditional tattoos with neurological diseases in Togo].

In Africa, there are two types of health systems: the modern system and the traditional one. Traditional medicine attracts more patients, because it is more financially accessible and corresponds to cultural representations of disease in society. Traditional therapeutic tattoos are not well known by the conventional health system in West Africa, although they are commonly used by traditional healers.

[Clinical and epidemiological aspects of traditional therapeutic scarification in epilepsy in Togo].

One of the major problems of epilepsy in Africa are its social implications. Prejudice against the disease is common and epileptics are marginalised. Epilepsy is concealed from all non-family members.

[Prevalence of HTLV-1 virus infection in Togo (Kozah prefecture and the University Hospital Center of Lomé].

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Human T cell Leukaemia Virus Type 1 (HTLV1) in a representative population sample, in neurological and non-neurological patients hospitalised in the Lomé teaching hospital in order to study the clinical manifestations of this retrovirus. There was no statistical difference among the three groups concerning the prevalence of HTLV1 respectively (1.2%: 21/1717, 1.

[Cysticercosis and epilepsy in the city of Tone, north of Togo].

An epidemiology study was conducted in Tone, a city in the very north of Togo from November 1 to 25, 1995. The prevalence of epilepsy was studied in 9,155 subjects and seroprevalence of cysticercosis in 1,343. This was a representative sample of this region with 194,000 inhabitants.